HEIGHTEN


Meaning of HEIGHTEN in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈhī-t ə n ]

verb

( height·ened ; height·en·ing ˈhīt-niŋ, ˈhī-t ə n-iŋ)

Date: 1523

transitive verb

1.

a. : to increase the amount or degree of : augment

b. : to make brighter or more intense : deepen

c. : to bring out more strongly : point up

d. : to make more acute : sharpen

2.

a. : to raise high or higher : elevate

b. : to raise above the ordinary or trite

3. obsolete : elate

intransitive verb

1. archaic : grow , rise

2.

a. : to become great or greater in amount, degree, or extent

b. : to become brighter or more intense

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.